School transport

[mrsnw]

A friend has been allocated a school further than 2 miles away from her house and is therefore inquiring about transport. Does the transport have to pick her little boy up from her own address or can it be a relatives address? Can the relative also travel with them? It would only be for a few days a week as my friend works and is looked after by a relative at their house. Many thanks xx

There is no provision for the child to be accompanied. What the actual transport method is will depend on your lea - it might be a bus and will pick up / drop off from a designated bus stop, or if its London there'll be nothing as kids travel free anyway. Or it might be a taxi - but will pick up from child's home in all likelihood, not someone else's house.

DD gets a free school bus to school. I take her to the bus stop and she gets on the school bus there. I can't go with her. She's dropped back there at the end of the day. The bus stops in several places even in our village, so nobody has to walk very far to a pick up point.

Her DS can be expected to walk accompanied up to a mile from home to the pick up and drop off point.

As for picking up and droping off the relative's address that depends. Probably more likely if he will be getting a school bus which stops near relative's home than if relative lives in oppostite direction from school.